by Peter Bainbridge | Apr 25, 2014 | News
As you will know, Home Support Worker 1’s have been issued with a variation to contract which confirms their regrading from Grade 2 to Grade 3. The advice given to the branch by UNISON Scotland has been NOT to sign these variations until such time as our legal...
by Peter Bainbridge | Apr 4, 2014 | News
Colleagues As you know, UNISON has been in negotiations with the Council regarding the 600 hours Scottish Government initiative. We are very close to calling members meetings to discuss the situation with you all, but we are still waiting on certain information from...
by Peter Bainbridge | Mar 26, 2014 | News
Colleagues Just a quick update to advise that we are still taking legal advice on the variation of contract that you have received – it has now been referred to our QC for comment. For clarification, I have written to the Council confirming that we have advised all...
by Peter Bainbridge | Mar 20, 2014 | News
Colleagues It has come to our attention today that Home Support Workers have been asked to sign a variation to contract regarding the recent grading change. We are currently taking legal advice on this matter and would advise that it should not be signed until we...
by Peter Bainbridge | Mar 12, 2014 | News
UNISON statement on current Equal Pay tribunal UNISON is pursuing in excess of 1000 equal pay claims against North Lanarkshire Council, dating back to the introduction of a new pay system rejected by UNISON in 2006. Although the revised salaries in the pay system...
